We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever
seen, as long as we remain honest — which will be as long as we can
keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive
to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and
governors would all become wolves. — Thomas Jefferson

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan
horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and
Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of
Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And
"emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This
technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that
demagoguery attains. — Herbert Hoover.

Rhetoric,
by Aristotle (c. 350 BCE) — Still the classic reference on the art of
public speaking and persuasive writing.

Give me six lines written by the most honourable of
men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. — Cardinal
Richelieu (1585-1642)

In the twentieth century being "well-spoken" came to
mean speaking in such as way that you can't easily be discredited by
being quoted out of context. — Jon Roland, 1995

Educational Reform

The
Lancasterian Monitorial System of Education — The methods of
the 19th century may offer the best hope for the 21st.

Lancasterian Society — Support
private schools using the Lancasterian Monitorial System, a method that
uses more advanced students to teach less advanced students, and teach
each at his or her own best rate.

the
deliberate dumbing down of america — Site for a
book by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the
U.S. Department of Education.

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce
man; brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the
timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. — Samuel
Clemens (Mark Twain)

Exchange
between Morris Dees and Jon Roland, Assembly at California
State University, 1999 Nov. 9 — Illustrates use of questioning to turn
an argument against someone.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people
who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives. — James Madison, Letter to
W.T. Barry, August 4, 1822.

Chat

Freedom
chat

Audio Texts — You
will usually need to download and install a player such as Realplayer.

American
Phonic

One of the first rules of effective
communication is to so compose the message as to anticipate all the
ways it could be misinterpreted, and minimize such misinterpretation.
This is especially important with laws, which are messages from the
past to the future. It is well to keep in mind Murphy's Law of
Lawmaking: "If it can be misinterpreted it will be, and it will be
misinterpreted in the worst way possible." — Jon Roland, 1997

Letter to editors

Militias
Against Drug Lords — Letter to editor by Roland on militias
as response to drug-financed corruption.

Militias
Against Terrorism — Letter to editor by Roland on militias as
response to terrorism.

Militias
and Constitutional Republics — Letter to Soldier of
Fortune re: article by James L. Pate in Feb. 1996 issue.

I often wonder whether we do not rest our
hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are
false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the
hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law,
no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do
much to help it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law,
no court to save it. — Judge Learned Hand

Editors to whom letters might be
sent

Giant
E-Mail Links — Compiled by the Conservative Caucus. Includes
email addresses of editors, talk shows, commentators, and elected
officials.

Rumor
Mills Media Addresses — Email and snailmail addresses for
most U.S. newspapers and broadcast media.

You may think the Constitution is your
security -- it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the
statutes are your security --they are nothing but words in a book. You
may think the elaborate mechanism of government is your security -- it
is nothing at all unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion
to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes,
to make efficient your machinery. — Justice Charles Evans
Hughes

Educational Projects

Constitutional
Literacy — Mission is to re-introduce the American public to
the basic elements of our constitutional heritage.

John
Stossel in the Classroom

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything,
but I can do something. And what I can do, I will do. — D. L. Moody
(1837-99), paraphrased. Similar to saying of Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909).

Talk Radio, Television &
Webcasting

The first of these is a local database of talk radio and TV
stations and programs. The others mix talk media with other kinds, so
you will have to pick out those which can serve as outlets for
alternative news and opinion.

Talk/News Radio & TV Directory
— Local archive of data, including WWW links and email addresses, of
radio and television stations and programs that offer listener call-in,
and therefore an opportunity to promulgate information and opinion that
is ignored by the mainstream media.

Guide
to Talk Radio Programming — Directory of syndicated hosts and their
syndicates, but lacks links to the individual hosts.

Radio
on the Internet

College
Radio Stations

European
Radio Stations

European
Radio Links

Non-Commercial
Radio Sites

Radio/TV
Dial Pages — Published by Michael R. Lewis,
includes "dial pages" for each area that show what stations a person
visiting there would get on his dial, and unofficial WWW pages for
every radio station. Valuable effort, but in a very early stage of
construction.

David
H. Citron's South Florida Radio Pages — Directory and news. Especially
interesting is his Media
Bias Web site.

Infowars
— Alex Jones is a nationally syndicated radio and access TV talk show
host based in Austin, Texas.

Jeff
Davis Show — Patriot radio and access TV talk show based in
Austin, Texas.

Throughout human history mankind has always been only
one generation away from barbarism — Unknown origin.

College or postgraduate
institutions

These are a few institutions which offer courses that are
avoid statist dogma.

University
of Chicago — Hotbed of libertarian thought and research and
the alma mater of the webmaster. See their Law School.

Hillsdale
College — Refuse to accept government funding to avoid the
undue influence that comes with it.

Grove
City College — Refuse to accept government funding to avoid
the undue influence that comes with it.

New
Saint Andrews College — Refuse to accept government funding
to avoid the undue influence that comes with it.

Regent
University — Christian graduate school in Virginia. Have an
especially good School
of Law.

Virginia
Commonwealth University — Have a proposal
for a constitutional studies program.

Pepperdine
University — West Coast institution with a conservative cast,
especially their School
of Law.

Robert
Welch University — Dedicated to providing a classical
education with a focus on American constitutional values.

YorktownUniversity.com
— Dedicated to the study of Western law, philosophy, and the history of
Western civilization.

Homeschooling Resources
— We can hardly do justice to all the sites that have emerged, but here
is a sample:

Homeschool
World — Popular site on the subject.

Homeschooling
Today — Magazine devoted to the subject.

Home
Education Magazine— Magazine devoted to the subject.

Homefires—
The Journal of Homeschooling Online.

The
Homeschool Zone— Gateway to homeschooling resources.

Homeschooling
Texas— Focus on the Lone Star State.

EducationalFreedom.com
— Defending the right of parents to teach their children better than
public educational systems do.

Teacher Honor Roll —
Here are a few teachers who are doing a good job of teaching
constitutional principles.